Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Scatopsidae ID
Posted by Ruth Ahlburg on 26-09-2010 10:04
#1
From my garden yesterday near Copenhagen, Denmark. Thousands of them on certain leafs on the bushes and foraging on Solidago. Walther Gritsch has guided me to Scatopsidae, is it possible to go to species?
Thanks in advance
Posted by Ruth Ahlburg on 26-09-2010 10:05
#2
Picture2
Posted by Ruth Ahlburg on 26-09-2010 10:08
#3
Picture3
Posted by Ruth Ahlburg on 26-09-2010 10:11
#4
Last picture.
I wonder what they are doing on the leaves, eating something?
Best
Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-09-2010 19:17
#5
Such aggregations at this time of year usually are
Apiloscatopse as are these, indeed. I cannot check their identity without my keys, though... Scould be
picea or
scutellata.
Posted by rvanderweele on 26-09-2010 19:27
#6
Paul, I checked in the key of Freeman & Lane. I think it is A. scutellata. Femora are all black.
Posted by Ruth Ahlburg on 26-09-2010 21:02
#7
Thank you very much, Paul and Ruud.
Ruth